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From:Heather M. Rankow - Developer's Connection <
Sent:Wednesday, July 13, 2022 7:04 PM
To:Courtney Henderson; Lindsay Romack; David Polivy; Jan Zabriskie; Anna Klovstad; Daniel Fraiman;
Nikki Riley; David Gove; Ruth Miller; Suzie Tarnay
Subject:Public Comment Following Yesterday's meeting
Dear Commissioners & Council Members,
I want to initially thank you for taking the time to meet for a joint session last night. I was unfortunately unable to
attend, but did watch the recording today. I wanted to echo some of the Commissioner’s concern and open dialogue at
the end of the meeting regarding the format and process of the joint meetings and topic matter. It is concerning that
there is not more dialogue between the commission and the council, especially at this time when we are reviewing our
Town’s new General Plan. As I’m sure everyone of you has taken the time to review all the general plan documents over
the past couple years, I feel that these joint meetings are the opportunity to have the dialogue, to discuss the tough
questions/topics/policies in an open and public forum. GPAC has done a lot of heavy lifting and there has been many
discussions there, but THIS is now the time for Council & the Commission to have those questions/discussions…instead
of a pushing aside to meet a timeline (however I do appreciate short meetings সহ). In my opinion moving forward, I
would think that maybe the Council and/or Commissioner’s could provide advice to the agenda and timing for the
agenda so that there is an appropriate amount of time to allow for these discussions, and in the future maybe
accommodating for more time in order to allow for this. Please excuse me if I am missing the mark here, but if now is
NOT the time to do this…when is it?
Not to specifically get into the weeds, I wanted to bring to light a specific policy point in the General plan that greatly
affects mixed use in downtown, and specifically in the current General Plan removes essentially any infill mixed use
housing in the Downtown area or any infill eligible areas. Please see 18.58.140. D, specifically regarding Maximum
Density. I think this is one policy that can bring infill to the Town of Truckee. I really hope that this policy can be
discussed amongst all of you as one we HIGHLY need to consider modifying. 4 units per acre in the year of 2022 is not an
appropriate mixed use density, when we’re looking for infill.
Thank you for your time.
Best Regards,
Heather M. Rankow
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